Jim Simmons is finalizing a c. 1000 page tome on Renaissance trading methods and is looking for a publisher. He was turned down by Wiley. They said he's taxing the attention span of their readers -- LongTheta

Sounds like that 90s trope about telemarketing bots talking to answering machines.

You can have news generating bots writing news stories, then news reading trading bots pick them up and trade on them, which generates more news-y stuff for news generating bots to write about etc.

Or, to go back to the earlier thread, a sitcom writing bot (a library of stock characters, jokes and tv tropes plus some random number generators and a scoring function), and sitcom watching bots that are watching sitcoms to learn to imitate humans. Viewing numbers are fed back to improve the scoring functions of the writing bots.

There is no need for humans to get involved on any side. We can just go grab a beer while bots tie each other in infinite loops.

>Maybe they have a super good "public relations AI."Maybe not. "But the Turing test cuts both ways. You can't tell if a machine has gotten smarter or if you've just lowered your own standards of intelligence to such a degree that the machine seems smart. If you can have a conversation with a simulated person presented by an AI program, can you tell how far you've let your sense of personhood degrade in order to make the illusion work for you?" J. Lamier

The older I grow, the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom
Henry L. Mencken